My favourite is still "End of all Time". Amazingly, I have converted a friend and my brother onto Gordon after playing this song, on a recent holiday. Not only that, but they are into a few other songs from "Harmony", and have now both borrowed the CD!

i dont know if you are able to catch Gord's intro on The No Hotel, but it goes like this:

"In 1989 I was in Menowus, with a party of tree huggers, down with Dr. David Suzuky and we were to meet up with Sting, on the Shangoo River which is a tribunetary of the Amazon. I had to take a guy out into the Suburbs of Menowus, which is a city of about 1 and a half milloin people about half way up the Amazon River. Got there at about 4:00 in the morning to the Nobo Hotel. And when I got there, I noticed that 2 of the letters in the name of the hotel were burned out. And the name of the sign, it was just like 'The No Hotel'. That stuck with me as a song title in the number of years which ensued and about 3 months ago, I finished the song. It's called "The No Hotel". uh dee dee duh (launches into song)"

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'Sit Down Young Stranger' and visit The Home Page Of Gordon Lightfoot

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Harmony is the masterpiece i think Gordie and his fans will remember for a long time

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Sidney Freedmen

'Sit Down Young Stranger' and visit The Home Page Of Gordon Lightfoot

I like Harmony the best on the album. The No Hotel and River Of Light are also really good!

I like to listen to Couchiching because it's not so immediately "accessible" as they say, so I like to imagine what Gord was thinking about and aiming for with this composition...and I love Clouds of Loneliness too

quote:Originally posted by Sidney Freedmen:
i dont know if you are able to catch Gord's intro on The No Hotel, but it goes like this:

"In 1989 I was in Menowus, with a party of tree huggers, down with Dr. David Suzuky and we were to meet up with Sting, on the Shangoo River which is a tribunetary of the Amazon. I had to take a guy out into the Suburbs of Menowus, which is a city of about 1 and a half milloin people about half way up the Amazon River. Got there at about 4:00 in the morning to the Nobo Hotel. And when I got there, I noticed that 2 of the letters in the name of the hotel were burned out. And the name of the sign, it was just like 'The No Hotel'. That stuck with me as a song title in the number of years which ensued and about 3 months ago, I finished the song. It's called "The No Hotel". uh dee dee duh (launches into song)"


Nrearly there Sidney.
But it is actually

Manaus
and the tributary is the Xingu river.
Not only that but Gord was with Sting in a party of treehunters (as I hear it anyway) led by

David Suzuki
But having checked maps of the Amazon Valley I still do not understand why they ended up in Manaus which looks a great distance from the Xingu. Just maybe I'll get a chance to ask the man himself on that point!


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good point there. i wasnt really listening but anything's possible

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Sidney Freedmen

'Sit Down Young Stranger' and visit The Home Page Of Gordon Lightfoot

thanks John I couldn't hear that.

quote:Originally posted by brink:
thanks John I couldn't hear that.

You talkin' about that entro before he sings The NO Hotel? He must have good ears.

River of Light "hit" me the first time I heard it and it's still my favourite. Like Joweski says - "Can't get enough of it."
To me, it speaks of his optimism for the future.
It's also a bloody good tune!

River Of Light and Shellfish are my two faves on the album, and will easily stay in my top ten or fifteen GL songs for a looooong time to come.

That's one heck of an accomplishment, since my favourites tend to change on a daily basis!

Shellfish helps to keep me alive. I keep it wrapped around my heart.

I love what you said about Shellfish, Patti-you keep it wrapped around your heart. I, too, have found it to be the perfect tonic to sadness, defeatism: do not be down-hearted, there's still a ways to go, etc. I sing along and feel strong and great!

To RenoRick: "End Of All Days?" http://www.corfid.com/ubb/confused.gif

You were watching an "Ah-nie" movie when you wrote that message weren't you? Weren't you??!!! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/eek.gif It's "End Of All Time" and don'tcha ever get my fav from this CD wrong again. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/tongue.gif ...or I'll make you listen to Olvia Newton-John's version of "If You Could Read My Mind." http://www.corfid.com/ubb/eek.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/eek.gif

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Hi Rona.

Inspiration Lady really touched me as well as Harmony. Both are such marverlous pieces of songwriting.
I hope we remember these as all as possible. Truly a wonderful Canadian Gordie Lightfoot.

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Sidney Freedmen

'Sit Down Young Stranger' and visit The Home Page Of Gordon Lightfoot

Truly all of his songs are masterpieces

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Sidney Freedmen

'Sit Down Young Stranger' and visit The Home Page Of Gordon Lightfoot